L'Habitat prédynastique de la Vallée du Nil: vivre sur les rives du nil aux V et IV millénaires

The Predynastic living sites of the Nile Valley constitute one of the fields of the Prehistoric Research in Egypt that is still too largely underrated or ignored. Since the discover of the big cemeteries in Upper Egypt at the end of the 19th century, the richness of the artefacts found in the Predynastic tombs have fascinated the pioneers of the Egyptian Archaeology. The attention paid to Predynastic settlements was at this time reduced to simple remarks in excavations reports. The aim of this research work was to show which type of traces are left by the Predynastic dwelling structures, and also to assess the situation. About thirty Predynastic settlements have been recorded then. From this catalogue, the main research perspectives linked to the question of the settlement have been highlighted and presented.